Personal pronouns
Subject and object
pronouns
1) We use pronouns in place of nouns. They
may be subject (she) or object (her).
2)
We call I,
you, etc. personal pronouns because they refer to 'grammatical
persons':
1st person: I, we 2nd
person: you 3rd person: he, she, it, one, they
3)
In English, we
must express the subject of a sentence, so we use a pronoun or a noun:
John (or He) is here. Tim
and Pam (or They) have arrived. (Not *is here* *have
arrived* etc.)
4)
We do not have
singular and plural forms of you. We can say You're right to
someone we don't know at all or to someone we know very well, to a child or to
an adult.
5) We use it to say who someone
is: Who's that?- It's our new neighbour, Mr, Groves.
We use he/she/they to
give information about someone:
Who's Mr Groves? - He's our
new neighbour.
Write: Supply pronouns
and underline the words they replace.
1 Your parcel has
arrived. .............It .......was delivered this morning.
2 Jane and I have
already eaten. .............................had a meal before we left home.
3 Who's that? -
............................'s my mother. Would you like to meet her?
4 Who's Jane
Wilson? - ............................'s the woman who's just started working
for our company.
5 So you've had a
baby! Is ............................a boy or a girl?
6 Whose cat is
that? ............................'.s always in our garden.
7 When John comes
in, please tell .............................I phoned.
8 If you see
Catherine, please give .............................my regards
Subject
or object pronoun?
1)
We often use object pronouns after be:
Who is it? - It's me/him/her/us/them.
2)
We do not use I, she, etc. on
their own in answer to questions with Who?. In everyday speech, we
use object pronouns: Who told him? - Me/Not me. Or
we say: I did// didn't.
3) We use object pronouns after as and
than: He's taller than me/as tall as me. or we use subject +
verb: He's taller than I am/as tall as I am.
Write: Supply suitable
pronouns in the following. Alternatives are possible.
1 Who's that? - It's ...me/him/her/us/them…!
2 Who wants to know what we're
having for dinner tonight? - .......................................................!
3 Who wants to help me in the
garden? - Not............................... !
4 You can invite him to your place.
- ............................... ! You must be joking!
5 It was
..............................who told you, not my brother.
6 She's taller
than................................ but not as strong as
.............................. am.
7 He's more intelligent than
............................... am, but not as good at sports
as...............................
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